Monday, June 06, 2011

Reality bites

Sarah Palin has taken to her friends at Fox to proclaim she was correct in declaring that Paul Revere warned the British about American plans to challenge them at Lexington and Concord.

She is relying on a letter written by Revere and housed at the Massachusetts Historical Society to make her case, one far different from the popular cultural belief ingrained by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. And that's where she's running into problems.

The hard part is accepting the fact that Palin, who has made her claim to fame a disdain for "elites," actually researched this little known fact ahead of time and was educating Americans about Longfellow's historical liberties.